Presentation 2016-12-20
Evaluation of impressions toward people with disabilities
Junichi Takahashi, Ayana Haga,
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Abstract(in English) This study examined impressions toward people with disabilities using a semantic differential (SD) method. Participants (N = 105) completed a questionnaire investing the degree to which they recognized various disabilities. Furthermore, participants completed an SD experiment consisting of 20 adjective-pair scales describing video scenes featuring people with developmental disorders. We extracted the following 3 factors using principal factor analysis: Evaluation, Activity, and Potency. Considering the relationships between these factors and individual differences in sex, and in degree of disability recognition, we found sex differences in Evaluation, and individual differences in the degree of disability recognition inEvaluation and Potency, but not in Activity. These results indicated the factor structure within impression formation toward people with disabilities, and that individual differences in the degree of disability recognition affected impression formation.
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Keyword(in English) Developmental disorders / Semantic differential method / Understanding disabilities
Paper # HIP2016-64
Date of Issue 2016-12-13 (HIP)

Conference Information
Committee HIP / ITE-HI / ITE-CE
Conference Date 2016/12/20(2days)
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Place (in English) Reserach Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University
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Chair Masahiro Ishii(Sapporo City Univ.) / 佐藤 雅之(北九州市大) / 南 浩次(三菱電機)
Vice Chair Miyuki Kamachi(Kogakuin Univ.) / Shuichi Sakamoto(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Miyuki Kamachi(Tokushima Univ.) / Shuichi Sakamoto(Univ. of Tsukuba) / (Nagoya Univ.) / (NTT)
Assistant Rika Mochizuki(NTT) / Mutsumi Suganuma(Waseda Univ.) / Atsushi Wada(NICT)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Human Information Processing / Technical Group on Human Information / Technical Group on Consumer Electronics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Evaluation of impressions toward people with disabilities
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Developmental disorders
Keyword(2) Semantic differential method
Keyword(3) Understanding disabilities
1st Author's Name Junichi Takahashi
1st Author's Affiliation Fukushima Univercity(Fukushima Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Ayana Haga
2nd Author's Affiliation Souma Special Needs Education School(Souma Special Needs Education School)
Date 2016-12-20
Paper # HIP2016-64
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) HIP-377
Page pp.pp.17-20(HIP),
#Pages 4
Date of Issue 2016-12-13 (HIP)